“…Diiron complexes with a variety of multidentate ligands have been intensively studied in recent years, since it is known that dinuclear iron clusters in the active sites of metalloproteins play an important role in biological systems such as haemerythrin, 1,2 R2 protein of ribonucleotide reductase, 3 methane monooxygenase, 4-6 and purple acid phosphatase. [7][8][9] The bpmp complexes drawn in Chart 1 have a µ-phenolate bis(µ-carboxylate) diiron core similar to the active centers in the metalloproteins, and it is all the more significant, for an understanding of the intramolecular electron transfer between two iron atoms in biological systems, to know the mechanism of the temperature dependence of the electron transfer rate and what factors affect this rate. Mixed-valence dinuclear iron(,) complexes with a septadentate polypyridine ligand{Hbpmp = 2,6bis[bis(2-pyridylmethyl)aminomethyl]-4-methylphenol} were synthesized by Suzuki et al 10 and diiron(,) complexes with ligands which contain 1-methylimidazole instead of the pyridine groups, 11 or which have two phenol groups substituted for two of the pyridine groups, 12 were also reported.…”